I live with a robot. Most of the time, it rests silently on its little platform (otherwise known as its home) until I push its belly button (otherwise known as the on/off switch). Then a green light ...

There’s a puppy on the road. The car is going too fast to stop in time, but swerving means the car will hit an old man on the sidewalk instead. What choice would you make? Perhaps more importantly, ...

Morality and artificial intelligence have a contentious, and perhaps even an antagonistic relationship. Yet, artificial intelligence (AI) itself cannot have morality – for it is a machine. However, AI ...

A self-driving car is crashing on a busy street. Who does it kill? Who does it save? Your answer will be shaped by where you live, says an MIT study.

An MIT Media Lab game delves into the moral quandries related to autonomous machine ethics and society. Ready or not, autonomous vehicles are on the move. But before these self-driving vehicles hit ...

From Tools to Moral Actors Traditional tools amplified human intent but did not make independent choices. A hammer does not decide what to build. But modern AI systems do more than follow rules. They ...

While self-driving vehicle technology is still being refined, one crucial task is developing "machine intelligence"—a fancy way of describing the kinds of decisions a driverless car will have to make ...